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Branstetter Swinging Bridge

Benton County, Missouri
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Overview
Lost swinging bridge over Osage River, southwest of Warsaw
Location
Benton County, Missouri
Status
No longer exists
History
Built 1924 for $8,500
Design
Wire suspension
Dimensions
Total length: 600.0 ft.
Also called
Peal Bend Bridge
Approximate latitude, longitude
+38.19555, -93.39722   (decimal degrees)
38°11'44" N, 93°23'50" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
15/465217/4227587 (zone/easting/northing)
Land survey
T. 40 N., R. 22 W., Sec. 31
USGS topographic map
Warsaw West
Inventory number
BH 20848 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Benton County, Missouri (32)
Built 1924 (494)
Built during 1920s (7,033)
Lost (10,373)
Missouri (4,527)
Osage River (27)
Suspension (278)
Total length 500-1000 feet (1,805)

Update Log 

  • December 14, 2006: Added info from Darrin Williams

Sources 

  • Darrin Williams - DWilliams [at] Watlow [dot] com
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Branstetter Swinging Bridge
Posted March 4, 2011, by Darrin Williams (dwilliams [at] watlow [dot] com)

I've attached a picture of what I think to be the Branstetter (Peal Bend) Swinging Bridge. Notice the steel tower on the far side. The Peal Bend Bridge had a tower severely damaged by a tornado in the 1920's so it stands to reason this could be the same bridge.

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Branstetter Swinging Bridge
Posted May 4, 2006, by Darrin Williams (dwilliams [at] watlow [dot] com, darrinwilliams@hotmail [dot] com)

This bridge was also known as the Peal Bend Bridge. Joe Dice built this bridge in 1912 on the downstream end of what was called Peal Bend on the Osage River.

It was 600' long had wooden towers and cost $8,500. In 1924, a tornado(the same storm that took out the original Upper Bridge?) blew down on of the towers. Apparently, the bridge was rebuilt.